Infrared observations of asteroids from space: The past and future

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1909-1917

  Price, Stephan D ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; INFRARED IMAGERY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SPACE TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0036979020     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb01172.x     Document Type: Article

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